Violette Nozière (murderer)

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Violette Nozière
Born	11 January 1915 Neuvy-sur-Loire
Died	26 November 1966(1966-11-26) (aged 51) Le Petit-Quevilly
Nationality	France
Known for	murdering her father

Violette Nozière (11 January 1915 – 26 November 1966) was a French woman who was convicted of murdering her father. The 1978 film of the same name, was based on this case.^[1] She accused her father of having sexually abused her, making it one of the first case of incest to appear in the French modern press.

Life[]

Nozière was a bright child who gradually became more wayward. As a young woman she was indulged by her parents and she led a life subsidised by occasional prostitution. As a result, she contracted syphilis and when she became ill her doctor felt obliged to tell her parents. Nozière persuaded a doctor to certify that she was still a virgin in order to persuade her parents that her disease was hereditary. Her parents believed this and Nozière continued to subsidise her life style.

Murder[]

On March 23, 1933, when she was eighteen she bought the sleep-inducing drug Soménal and persuaded her parents to take an overdose of it by explaining that it was medicine that had been given to them by their doctor to cure the family's syphilis. The dose turned out to be too low, so on August 21 of the same year she used the same guise to get her parents to take an even larger overdose. Nozière then went out for the evening and when she returned to the flat she found her parents inert bodies. She turned on the gas and when the smell was overpowering she went to a nearby flat where she said that she thought that her parents had tried to commit suicide.^[2]

Germaine Nozière and her lawyer M.Hézard giving evidence in 1934

Her father, Jean-Baptiste, who had been an engine driver, died: but his wife, Germaine, recovered. The murder case and Nozière's lifestyle was the main story in the newspapers. The following year she was convicted and sentenced to death but the sentence was gradually reduced, first to hard labour for life in 1934, then to 12 years in 1942. She was released in 1945.^[3]

Legacy[]

The case remained important in French culture.^[3]

In 1978 a film of the same name, was made that was based on this case.^[1]

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